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Mosul is full of trapped, terrified civilians — but as Iraqi forces and their allies move to wrest the northern city from the militants of Islamic State, one group finds itself in particularly desperate peril. Scores, perhaps even hundreds, of Yazidi women and girls enslaved by Islamic State more...read more

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BAGHDAD/ERBIL (Reuters) - Iraqi and Kurdish forces closing in on Mosul said on Tuesday they had secured some 20 villages on the outskirts of the city in the first day of an operation to retake what is Islamic State's last major stro...

Iraqi armed forces have started an operation to retake the northern city of Mosul from Islamic State militants, who have held the beleaguered city for nearly two years. Continue reading ?
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By Juan Cole / Informed Comment The Iraqi government has announced that the campaign to take the large northern city of Mosul back from Islamic State has begun in earnest. So what is the significance of Mosul as a city?

Residents of Mosul said Islamic State was using civilians as human shields as Iraqi and Kurdish forces captured outlying villages in their advance on the jihadists’ stronghold.
The leader of Islamic State was reported to be among th...

Iraqi government forces and paramilitary militias have tortured, arbitrarily detained, forcibly disappeared and executed thousands of civilians who have fled the rule of the Islamic State militant group (ISIS), Amnesty International...